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Thursday, 25 June 2015

Why morons are morons are morons are morons the world over, irrespective of gender — but somehow the male of the species has a head-start. Why?

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We all have to pass the time somehow (and don’t give me any of that ‘I’m to busy to worry about how to pass the time’ bullshit - show me som...
Sunday, 21 June 2015

I hate to say this, but this is nothing but a 1,104-word whinge, so unless you have nothing better to do, best ignore it

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Oh, to go on holiday again, and soon. I’ve only been back from my nine/ten days in Mallorca, but I can already feel the yearn for a certain ...
Thursday, 18 June 2015

Seems like the Greeks will soon be making that drachma out of a crisis - finally. But hold onto your seat belts, it could be a very bumpy ride

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You might well have heard the anecdote about a visitor to Ireland asking his way to somewhere. ‘Well,’ declares the Irishman he consults, ‘f...
Thursday, 11 June 2015

Q: When is a loan shark not a loan shark? A: Never. They are always scum even when they come in a suit and expensive aftershave and don’t carry a stilletto. And that is what Greece now knows: you want credit? We’ve got credit — but it will cost ya

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We must all know that feeling, especially when we are younger and have less experience of life (by which I mean we have so far been in fewer...
Saturday, 30 May 2015

Howl! Those old hippy buffers still think they were relevant. Oh, well, but never trust folk who believe their own bullshit. And then there’s Ginsberg’s Howl: a milestone in poetry or just a long late-adolsescent rant? You decide, I’m off to watch the Cup Final

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I was born in 1949 so I might legitimately be regarded as part of the ‘Sixties generation’, although for one or two reasons I was not. First...
Wednesday, 27 May 2015

Newspaper journalism a ‘vocation’? Up to a point, Lord Copper. Or: Myths I should like to bust: Part 1 in an series of I don’t know how many more.

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A few years ago, before the days my criminal son initiated me in the criminal ways of criminally downloading films with uTorrtent, I used to...
Saturday, 23 May 2015

But I’ll be back (©Schwarzenegger et al). And a little more on Somerset Maugham, a rather better man and nicer chap (and better writer) than many

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I’m sitting here in the right-on-the-sea restaurant on my very last day, with just just hours to do before I head back to Palma airport, via...
Friday, 22 May 2015

Just a couple of piccies while I get my thoughts together

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Eix Hotel Alcudia, Port d’Alcudia, Mallorca – Last full day Went off in search of Capdepera castle yesterday, but got sidetracked by the i...
Thursday, 21 May 2015

Know an Irish gay? Wish him or her luck

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Eix Hotel Alcudia, Port d’Alcudia, Mallorca – Day eight/nine? It’s ‘let our gays get married’ day tomorrow in Ireland, so I thought I migh...
Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Another day in paradise (of a kind, well, not really, too many f*cking tourists) in which I manage the impossible: go around in circles in squares – read on, read on! – and am obliged to be fatherly and strict with my daughter

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Eix Hotel Alcudia, Port d’Alcudia, Mallorca – Day six? Seven? In some ways yesterday was a bit of a washout, although no rain was involved...